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Birdog, BrentD, Prof, Cameron, dogon, LGF, liverwort, SKB, spring, Tim Cartmell
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by Mike Harrell
Mike Harrell
Returned yesterday from our annual float hunt for moose in Alaska. Didn't see many moose due to lots of wolves but we were successful in getting our two. Meat for the next year.
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by BrentD, Prof
BrentD, Prof
Originally Posted by ellenbr
Too, I learned it is better to hunt Moose on a float trip rather than being dropped off by a Bush Plane on a Mountain top. The Moose are eating the Willow trees & will be found near the wetlands.
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There are a lot of advantages of a drop trip too. Both styles of hunting have there pluses and minuses. We drop camped into the Yukon Delta and killed 2.

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I'd love to do a float trip someday, but I would probably do another drop camp first.

Nothing is as good as moose meat
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by Mike Harrell
Mike Harrell
Both ended up in the water. We always bring a honda winch. Pulls them right up the bank for dry processing. I've shot 4 or 5 over the years in the water. Have never processed one in the water. lol
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by KY Jon
KY Jon
Much respect for subsistence hunters. It is a matter of eating or not eating for them. Others, who hunt just for the body count, and we all know a few of them, get no pass from me. You eat what you kill in my book, or do not shoot it. I refuse to go sea duck hunting because I have eaten them and do not find them tasty shall we say. The hunt is challenging but since I wont eat them I wont shoot them. Give me most ducks, geese or even a pile of quail or dove and I am happy. Glad you got your moose, they are excellent table fare. Must have been a neat trip that many here would love to take.
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by ellenbr
ellenbr
Originally Posted by Mike Harrell
I'm too old to like sleeping on the ground. We take cots, air mattress, and folding chairs.

I am too. The 1st night I tired a cot & I switched to a mattress, which I forgot to self-inflate. It was indeed miserable. But after I remembered to inflate my mattress and put a tarp down, it was great sleep. We had some novel folding chairs but there is just so much you can ferry via Bush Plane to an old Gold Mine path. And then you are space limited on a raft. With all that kit on it, it was a Bear to navigate.

But with all that dry float wood on the rock bars, I could make a fire one in about 10 minutes one could see from the Space Station, without Boy Scout fluid.


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Serbus,

Raimey
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by ellenbr
ellenbr
I had always wanted to harvest some Harlequin Ducks and we floated right by some juvenile Harlequins the day before the season opened. Then after waterfowl season opened, of course they weren't to be found. Mostly say Shoves & Mergansers. Salmon numbers were very low so the Bear were eating Cranberries and headed to the mountains for a long Winter's rest. Saw lots of large Moose tracks but only found a paddle / shed. Very interesting trip for sure. I refer to it as the Aniak Suicide Safari 2022.

Serbus,

Raimey
rse
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by ellenbr
ellenbr
Also, one would always find Black Bear & Ravens @ the land fill. I spent quite some time w/ the Game Warden and so I asked him, What is the difference between a Crow & a Raven?? He replied that is a good question and the Raven is larger. I was still perplexed as Ravens were thick as thieves, but protected. They are huge opportunists.

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Serbus,

Raimey
rse
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by Cameron
Cameron
Where I lived, Bethel, the city dump had numerous ravens and a lesser number of crows, but the dominate bird at the dump was the seagull! Some friends and I started calling them dump chickens! And, I hated the plastic grocery bags! After a big wind, which happened often enough, the darn bags were strewn across the tundra for seemingly miles!

Ravens are very opportunistic and a very smart bird. Where I originally grew up in N ID, our property borders a small rural golf course, I'd be walking the property (mostly timbered) and find golf balls a long way from the course and think...no way someone could drive a ball this far! I asked my dad what he thought about that, and he indicated that he thought they were ravens that would pick the balls up off the course, thinking they may be a food source and when they realized they weren't, they'd drop the ball. I guess as good an explanation as any!

Sounds like a good trip Raimey, glad you had an opportunity to experience the area on a what sounds like a cool trip! Cool rifle Brent and a good-looking bull,,,,congrats!
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by Mike Harrell
Mike Harrell
we take a battery powered sawsall to help dress out the moose. We never gut one anymore. Saawsall with 4 batteries will do two moose including cutting the antlers off.
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by ellenbr
ellenbr
Neat to know on the battery powered saw. I hadn't thought of that.

I heard many things about Bethel & that it was the place to be. Lots of Koreans and Korean restaurants, with Albanian Cabbies and Filipinos brought in as teachers. Seemed to be a thriving metro of 3k folks?

The Yup'ik term for a spent Salmon was something like Methluk or Muthluk??? I heard them use the terms on humans they considered to be in a similar state???

Serbus,

Raimey
rse
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by Mike Harrell
Mike Harrell
I've been told that Bethel has the most cabs per capita than any place on earth. Not sure if that's true.
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